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John Joseph Henry, 

Dr. Stephens Chambers Henry, 

Daniel Farrand Henry. 

COMPILED BY 

WILLIAM LOUIS HENRY, 
DETROIT. MICH. 



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JOHN JOSEPH HENRY, 
President Judge of the Second Judicial District of Pennsylvania. 

(■ I'ldin the portrait in the Jordan collection of the 1 1 istorical Society of Pennsylvania.) 



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John Joseph Henry. 

John Joseph Henry (second born son of William 
Henry, and Ann Wood, his wife), was born November 
4, 1758, at Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa., and died 
April 22, 1811, at Lancaster, and is buried in the family 
lot in the Moravian graveyard at Lancaster City, Pa. 
The burial records of the Moravian church, No. 550, 
at Lancaster, Pa. He married on April 5, 1785, at 
Lancaster, Pa., Jane Chambers (sister of Captain Steph- 
en Chambers, of Revolutionary fame, and later a prom- 
inent lawyer of Lancaster, Pa.). She died April 15, 
1826, at the residence of her son-in-law, Thomas Smith, 
near Darby, Pa. 

Children of John Joseph Henry and his wife, Jane 
( Chambers ) Henry : 

1. Stephen Chambers Henry, M. D., born Jan. 14, 

1786; died Aug. 12, 1834. Married, first, Anna 
Forsyth; second, Charlotte Pamela Farrand. 

2. Anna Maria Henry, b. Jan. 20, 1788; married 

Thomas Smith. 

3. Elizabeth Henry, b. April 10, 1790; d. March 2, 

1793. 

4. Caroline Henry, b. Sept. 19, 1791. 

5. Elizabeth A. Henry, b. July 12, 1793; d. Dec, 

1820. 

6. Henrietta Henry, b. May 31, 1795; d. June 4, 

1821. 

7. Amelia Catherine Henry, b. Jan 3. 1797; d. Oct., 

1820. 

8. Lydia Henry, b. Nov. 28, 1798; d. 1817. 



9. Aubrey Wood Henry, d. 1804. 
10. Julian Henry, M. D., married Anne Clark White, 
daughter of John Joseph White, and moved to 
St. Louis, Mo. Died about 1848, 

John Joseph Henry, at the age of 14, he was bound 
as apprentice to an uncle, John Henry, who was a gun- 
smith, then a resident of Lancaster, Pa., and in 1772 
came west to Detroit and engaged in the gunsmith 
business and fur trader in Detroit, taking his nephew, 
John Joseph Henry, with him, where John Henry re- 
mained three or four years and then returned to Penn- 
sylvania. The boy only remained here two years. 

W^hen the news of the trouble in the east, which finally 
resulted in the revolt against English rule, reached 
Detroit, he left here in 1774 for his home in Lancaster; 
he traveled afoot, and was accompanied by an Indian 
guide. After journeying a few days the Indian sick- 
ened and died in the woods; the boy buried him and 
set forth alone through the wilderness. After reaching 
home, he found that Gen. Montgomery was organizing 
an expedition to take Quebec. On June 14, 1775, Con- 
gress adopted a resolution for raising eight companies 
of expert riflemen in Pennsylvania, known as Col. 
William Thompson's Battalion of Kiflemen. 

At the age of 16 he enlisted in a battalion of expert 
riflemen in a company of men raised in Lancaster 
county in June, 1775. He was a volunteer in Captain 
Matthew Smith's company of Col. William Thompson's 
Battalion of Riflemen enlisted in June, 1775. This bat- 
talion was to join the army near Boston, Mass. On the 
5th of September tw^o companies of this battalion (Cap- 
tain Wm. Hendricks and Matthew Smith's companys) 
were ordered to parade upon the commons in Cambridge. 
They had been the picked men of an army of picked 



men, and joined the detachment to go upon command 
with Col. Benedict Arnold, who marched Sept. 11, 
1775, from Prospect Hill, near Cambridge, in Massa- 
chusetts, througli the forests of Maine and eastern 
Canada, in the campaign against Quebec in 1775. The 
American assault of this famous fortress at Quebec 
was made in the night during a snow storm on Decem- 
ber 31, 1775, but the English garrison defended it 
successfully. Benedict Arnold, then one of the 
Colonels, after desperate fighting, was wounded in 
the leg and his regiment was forced to surrender. John 
Joseph Henry, who was in Arnold's regiment, was taken 
prisoner, and he was a prisoner for nine months at 
Quebec. Here he caught the deaded scurvj^ and be- 
came lamed for life. He was paroled August 7, 1776. 
arrived at New York September 11, 1776, and was ex- 
changed in 1778 for the St. John's prisoners, captured 
bv Gen. Montgomery. When exchanged he went home to 
recuperate (and was commissioned as captain in the Vir- 
ginia line, under Col. Daniel Morgan, and later Gen. 
Morgan, who was also a prisoner at Quebec, then a 
captain from Virginia). He was obliged to decline on 
account of his disease. Arnold's campaign against Que- 
bec of the expedition of over nine hundred miles, 
throughout the wilderness of Maine and eastern Canada 
in 1775. That expedition, perhaps the most arduous 
during the revolution, was of the hardships and sufferings 
of a small band of heroes. The detachment of eleven 
hundred men. 

Later he served a clerkship of four years in the office 
of Prothonotary of Lancaster County, and subsequently 
entered as a student-at-law in the office of Stephen 
Chambers, Esq., at Lancaster. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1785, and continued in practice for eigjit years. 



On Deoember 10, 1793, Governor Thomas Mifflin ap- 
pointed him President Judge of the Second Judicial Dis- 
trict of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties of 
Chester, Lancaster, York' and Dauphin, which office he 
filled for seventeen years. During the latter years of 
his judicial term, ill health impaired the efficiency of his 
services, and he was often unal)le to attend the sessions 
of court. He resigned in December, 1810, and died April 
22, 1811. 

His journal on the campaign against Quebec was 
printed by Wm. Greer, at Lancaster, Pa., in 1812, and 
later was published in the Pennsylvania Archives. 

For reference see Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. 10, Sec- 
ond Series, pages 3, 7, 10, 23, 40. His journal on the 
campaign against Quebec is found in the same series 
of Archives, Vol. 15, pages 59 to 192. 

By his great grandson, 

WILLIAM LOUIS HENRY, 

542 Jos. Campau Ave., 

Detroit, Mich. 
March 21, 1909. 



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STATE LIBRARY OP PENNSYLVANIA. 

Harrisburg, Pa., March 16, 1898. 
William Louis Henry, 

542 Jos. Campau Ave., 

Detroit, Mich. 

To Whom It May Concern : — 

I hereby certify to the Revolutionary services of John 
Joseph Henry, as follows: 

John Joseph Henry was a volunteer in Captain Mat- 
thew Smith's Company, of Col. Wm. Thompson's Bat- 
talion of Riflemen; enlisted in June, 1775. He was on 
Arnold's expedition against Quebec; was captured and 
subsequently paroled. He was appointed, December 16, 
1793, President Judge of the Second Judicial District 
of Pennsylvania. He died April 22, 1811, and was 
buried in the Moravian graveyard at Lancaster. For 
reference see Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. 10, Second 
Series, page 41. His journal of the campaign, Quebec, 
is found in the same series of Archives, Vol. 15, pages 

59-192. 

Yours with respect, 

(Signed) William Henry Egle, M. D., 

State Librarian and Editor Penna. Archives. 



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Dr. Stephen Chambers Henry. 

Stephen Chambers Henrj, an early physician and 
surgeon of Detroit (the first born son of John Joseph 
Henry and his wife, Jane Chambers). 

He was born January 14, 1786, at Harrisburg, 
Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania, and was baptized at Lan- 
caster May 7, 1786, by Rev. L. F. Bohler in the house of 
his grandfather, William Henry, sponsor (from the 
Moravian church records, Lancaster, Lancaster Co., Pa.), 
and died at Detroit, Mich., August 12, 1831, of cholera, 
and was buried in the family lot, No. 97, Sec. H, Elm- 
wood Cemetery. 

In 1809 he graduated from the Medical Department 
of the University of Pennsylvania, and settled in De- 
troit, Mich., in 1809 at the solicitation of his uncle, 
eTames Henry, then a resident of Detroit, and commenced 
the practice of medicine, and continued in practice for 
twenty-five years. 

He was army surgeon in the war of 1812 ; served as a 
Dragoon in Captain Richard Smyth's company of Volun- 
teer Cavalry of Major Witherell's detachment of Michi- 
gan Volunteers and Militia, war of 1812, and was made 
a prisoner of war at the surrender of Detroit, August 
16, 1812, by Brig.-Gen. Hull. 

He married his first wife, Ann Forsyth, February 3, 
1813, a daughter of William Forsyth, Jr. She was born 
July 13, 1797, at Detroit, Mich., and died April 11, 
1827, at Detroit. They had three children. 

The children of the first marriage : 1. Jane Ann 
Henry, born in Detroit, ]Mich., November 12, 1814, and 




DR. STEPHEN CHAMBERS HENRY. 



died at Detroit February 7, 1879. She married Thomas 
E. Forsyth in 1838; he died June 24, 1895. They had 
two children. 2. Aubrey Wood Henry, born in Detroit, 
Mich., February 27, 1816; died at Detroit April 17, 
1817. 3. William Aubrey Henry, born in Detroit, Mich., 
March 14, 1823; died at Detroit January 31, 1881; mar- 
ried Elizabeth T. Thibodeau July 18, 1842. She was 
born in Portland, Maine, September 15, 1820, and died 
at Detroit July 27, 1886. They had seven children. 

His first wife, Ann Forsyth, was a scion of the old 
Forsyth family of Detroit. Her grandfather, the pro- 
genitor of the family, William Forsyth, Sr., was born 
in Ireland of Scotch ancestors; was in the British army 
under Gen. Wolfe at the capture of Quebec on Septem- 
ber 13, 1759, where has was twice wounded. His com- 
mand was subsequently stationed at Detroit. At the 
expiration of his term of service he settled in Detroit 
and engaged in fur trading and kept a tavern. About 
1770' he married a widow, Mrs. Kinzie (the mother of 
the late John Kinzie, of Chicago, the first permanent 
white settler who settled in Chicago in the spring of 
1804. 

William Forsyth. Sr., died in Detroit about 1790. 
They had several children: George Forsytli, James For- 
syth, Thomas Forsyth, William Forsyth, Jr., and Robert 
Forsyth (father of ]Major Robert A. Forsyth). 

(In the old family Bible we find the following touch- 
ing records of an event that occurred: George Forsyth 
was lost in the woods on 6th of August, 1775, as he 
came from school one day. The remains of George were 
found by an Indian the 2nd of October, 1776, clos»e by 
the Prairie Ronde. There was nothing to identify him 
except the auburn curls of his hair and the little boots 
he had worn. For reference see Wau-Run.) 



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Stephen Chambers Henry married his second wife, 
Miss Charlotte Pamehi Farrand, July 13, 1831, at De- 
troit, Mich., Kev. Noah M. Wells, of the First Presby- 
terian church, officiating. She was the daughter of the 
late Daniel Farrand, judge of the Vermont Supreme 
Court. She was born February 3, 1804, at Burlington, 
Vermont; died at Detroit, Mich., January 25, 1884, and 
was buried in the family lot. No. 97, Sec. H, Elmwood 
Cemetery. 

He had one child by the second marriage, Daniel Far- 
rand Henry, consulting engineer; he was born at Detroit, 
Mich., May 27, 1833; died at Detroit, May 13, 1907. He 
never married. He was buried in the family lot in Elm- 
wood Cemetery. 

After his first marriage he lived, in 1815, on the east 
side of Woodward avenue, one lot south of Woodbridge 
street, and his office was for some years in his house; 
then he removed to Jefferson avenue and Wayne street. 
Afterwards his office was on the north side of Jefferson 
avenue, one door west of Griswold street; but in the fire 
of January 16, 1831, it was burned out, with several ad- 
joining buildings. He then took an office over J. L. 
King's new store at the southeast corner of Jefferson 
and Woodward avenues. 

In 1831 he built his brick residence on the south side 
of Fort street west, now No. 97, between Wayne and 
Cass streets, west of tiie old Congregational church, and 
is still standing at present, occupied by the Cadillac 
Printing Company. This was the first brick house built 
on Fort street. 

About 1820 he successfully removed a portion of a 
man's intestines; and in March, 1834, he successfully 
operated by tying the sub-clavian artery to reduce an 
aneurism in the neck (the second operation of this kind 
in the country, the first being by Dr. Post, of Philadel- 



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phia). He wa.s on the grand jury September 27,- 1811. 
He also was one of the signers of address of the citizens 
of Detroit to Major William H. Puthuff, late of the 
United States Second Rifle Regiment, upon his retiring 
from the army and the command of his posit, 9th of 
August, 1815, 

He was appointed captain of the Light Dragoons in 
the Legionary Corps of Michigan Militia of the Terri- 
tory of Michigan. His commission was issued on the 
10th of August, 1818, and signed by Gov. Lewis Cass 
and William Woodbridge, Secretary of the Michigan 
Territory. 

At a meeting he was one of the members of the elec- 
tors of the Countv of Wavne favorable to the election 
of Hon. William Woodbridge as a delegate to Congress, 
August 23, 1819; Vice-President of the ^ledical Society 
of Michigan, June 23, 1820, and censor of examination 
for the year. Treasurer of the Medical Society of Michi- 
gan February 7, 1825, and censor. One of the incorpor- 
ators of the first Protestant Society of Detroit, Decem- 
ber 7, 1821. One of the incorporators of first Presby- 
terian church, January 23, 1825, and was elected and 
ordained elder. His wife, Ann Henry, was made a 
member this year. Member of committee appointed to 
draft a petition to Congress to prevent change in form 
of Territorial government November 29, 1822. Was 
elected a member of the Historical Society of Michigan 
September 18, 1829. Member of Executive Committee 
of Detroit Association for the Suppression of Intemper- 
ance February 24, 1830. Elected alderman in 1830. 
Member of the Board of Health in 1832, cholera year. 

By his grand-son, 

William Louis Henry, 

542 Jos. Campau Ave., 
March 21, 1909. Detroit, Mich. 



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RECORD AND PENSION OFFICE, WAR DEPART- 
MENT. 

Washing-ton, August 12, 1898. 

Respectfully returned to Mr. William Louis Henry, 

No. 542 Joseph Campau avenue, Detroit, Michigan. 
The records of this office show that one Stephen C. 
Henry served as a Dragoon in Captain Richard Smyth's 
company of Volunteer Cavalry, Major Witherell's detach- 
ment of Michigan Volunteers and Militia, War of 1812. 
His name appears on a company muster roll covering 
the period from July 21 to August 16, 1812, the latter 
date being the date of the surrender of his command 
as prisoners of war by Brigadier-General Hull, then 
commanding the army of Detroit. This roll bears the 
following entries opposite his name: "Date of engage- 
ment, April 21, 1812." "For what time engaged, 12 
months." "Detached as surgeon by Brig.-Gen. Hull." 
"Surrendered 16th August, 1812." His name also ap- 
pears on a pay roll of the company for the same period, 
which bears the following remarks relating to him : 
"Commencement of pay, or of this settlement. May 21, 
1812." "Expiration of pay or of tliis settlement, August 
16, 1812; time of service charged, 2 mo. 27 days." 

Nothing additional has been found of record bearing 
upon the subject of your inquiry. 

By authority of the Secretary of War, 

(Signed) F. C. Ainsworth, 

Colonel U. S. Army, 

Chief of Office. 
Record and Pension Office 

526249 

War Department. 

Aug. 11, 1898. 




DANIEL FARRAND HENRY, 

Consulting Engineer. 



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Daniel Farrand Henry. 

Daniel Farrand Henry (the only child of Dr. Stephen 
Chambers Henry by his second wife, ]Miss Charlotte 
Pamela Farrand). He was born May 27, 1833, in De- 
troit, Wayne Co., Michigan, in the house No. 97 Fort 
street west, on the south side, between Wayne and Cass 
streets, second house west of the old First Congrega- 
tional church. 

He died suddenly with heart failure at his office. No. 
48 Woodward avenue, Monday evening. May 13, 1907, 
and was buried in the family lot, No. 97, Sec. H, Elm- 
wood Cemetery. 

His father died when D. Farrand was an infant one 
year old. The care of the infant was left to his widowed 
mother, whose maiden name was Miss Charlotte Pamela 
Farrand, born February 3, 1801, at Burlingion, Vt. ; 
died at Detroit, Mich., January 25, 1884. She was the 
daughter of Daniel Farrand, one of the judges of the 
Vermont Supreme Court. 

As D. Farrand was a sickly child, he Avas not permit- 
ted to attend school at the usual age that children com- 
mence. His mother taught him the usual primary 
branches at home. She was well qualified to discharge 
the duties of a teacher. 

The boy progressed so rapidly in his studies under the 
tuition of his mother that he was able to read books of 
a character much above the capacity of boys of his age. 

A sickly, delicate boy, he was not permitted to play 
outdoors, but was obliged to amuse himself; he found his 
pleasure in books, which have continued to be his com- 
panion throughout life. 



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In 1843, when he was 10 years of age, D. Farrand was 
sent to Canandaigiia Academy, where he remained a 
short time; returning to Detroit, he attended the old 
Capitol school. From there he went to school at New- 
ark, Ohio, then to Canandaigua Academy. By this time 
he was siijBiciently advanced to commence his higher 
studies. He then went to a scientific school at Provi- 
dence, R. I., making rapid progress in his studies, his 
proficiency in higher matliematics being phenomenal. 
He seemed to accomplish by intuition what most people 
reach by laborious effort and persistent study; and this 
characteristic still continues with him through life. 

His facility in dealing with difficult problems in en- 
gineering is well known to the profession. 

He was in the first class of Sheffield Scientific School 
of Yale College. At that now famous institution he 
developed those scientific methods which have enabled 
him to keep pace with the progress of science. He, in 
consequence, graduated with distinction in 1853. He 
was an expert draughtsman, an able mathematician, a 
good machinist and well versed in the leading sciences, 
well prepared for his life work. 

He was for the past fifty-four years a hydraulic, civil 
and mechanical engineer. 

Upon returning to Detroit it was with a view to 
engaging in the profession of civil engineering. 

Mr. Henry, now of age, his career was changed. By 
his appointment in 1854 to a position in the Lake Sur- 
vey Department under Lieut. W. F. Reynolds, U. S. A., 
who was then in charge of this district, he proved a very 
valuable acquisition to the force, and held various im- 
portant positions under Lieut. Reynolds and several of 
his successors. 



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While with the party in the Lali^e Superior country in 
1856, he had charge of a shore party. From 1861 to 
1867 he had charge of the triangulation and measure- 
ment of primary bases. After that, for three years, he 
superintended the measurement of the outflow of the 
lakes; also for about six years he had charge of the 
meteorological department. He continued in office till 
1871. 

During these seventeen years he was connected with 
the government survey of the north and northwestern 
lakes he accumulated a vast amount of valuable data 
as a result of untiring observation and experiment. 
Much of the matter can be found scattered through 
scientific literature. It was in connection with observa- 
tion on the lakes in 1868 that he invented the tele- 
graphic current meter, which has come into general use 
for velocity measurements, and marks a renaissance in 
hydraulic investigation. 

His observations on the overflow of the lakes are re- 
garded as the highest authority on the subject, and his 
observations on the sudden rise and fall of the lakes 
have been the subject of much discussion among scientific 
men. There seems to be no explanation of the cause of 
these fluctuations in lake levels, Mr. Henry says. At 
Sault Ste. Marie a change of level of over six feet has 
been observed, and once at Milwaukee a wave rushed 
up the river from the lake, whose amplitude was esti- 
mated at over seven feet. It has been expected that Mr. 
Henry would embody the results of his lake observations 
in a book. 

During the time Mr, Henry was engaged in the lake 
survey he took a lively interest in other important 
things. In 1856 he was one of the organizers of the 
Detroit gymnasium, being an enthusiast in physical 



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exercise. He was a member of the Young Men's Society, 
and at times delivered scientific lectures. 

He was also one of tlie organizers of the Detroit 
Scientific Association, and for several years was one of 
the curators of the Institution. 

A paper of his on the flow of water in rivers and 
canals was first printed in the journal of the Franklin 
Institute, and later he published it in book form. In 
addition, he wrote articles for papers and magazines. 

In 1871 he became a partner of E. F. Church and 
Oliver Chaffee in the Chicago Seed Company; remained 
in the seed business till 1873, first in Chicago and after- 
wards in Detroit, but the big fire of Chicago on October 
8-11, 1871, wiped the concern out. This was one of the 
misfortunes of Mr. Henry's life. By it the accumulations 
of a lifetime were swept out of existence. The loss of 
a large portion of his library is something which did 
grieve him, as there were things in it which cannot be 
replaced. 

He was chief engineer of the Detroit Board of Water 
Commissioners from 1872 to 1878, during which time 
the present pumping works above the city was con- 
structed. There is an invention devised by Mr. Henry 
in use at the waterworks which is regarded as the best 
of its purpose. It is a flexible inlet pipe. This has 
been commended by the foremost engineers in the 
country. 

In 1880 he went to the Upper Peninsula; was consult- 
ing engineer for the D., M. & M. Kailroad. His first 
work was observations on the ice in the Straits of Macki- 
nac. He decided on the practicability of crossing in the 
winter. He laid out nine villages and stations for the 
Peninsular Land Co. in the Upper Peninsula. 



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One of the most interesting events in his life was a 
canoe trip from Lake Superior to Lake Michigan to 
examine the drainage of the swamp through which the 
railroad was to pass. If he had notes of this trip, it 
would make interesting reading. 

He was for some time at Sault Ste. Marie for a water 
power company. If that company had carried out Mr. 
Henry's plan they would have saved themselves a great 
deal of trouble and money. He was the architect of the 
present Chippewa County court house. 

He designed a new waterworks system for the village 
of Sault Ste. Marie, and was also in private practice in 
the Upper Peninsula for some years. 

About 1890 he returned to Detroit and opened an 
office at 52, and later at No. 48, Woodward avenue as 
consulting engineer. 

The St. Clair and Erie ship canal was one of his last 
works on engineering. He was the projector and chief 
engineer of it — the canal which will run from the mouth 
of the Thames in Lake St. Clair to a point 26 miles 
east of Point Pelee, in Lake Erie, a distance of only 13 
miles, by which the sailing distance between Chicago and 
Buffalo will be shortened by 78 miles. He never was 
able to secure sufficient backing to make the plan a 
success. 

He has never patented any of his inventions, and has 
published but three, namely: a sectional caisson tunnel 
designed for the crossing of the Detroit river, and. a 
flexible inlet pipe, now in use at the Detroit waterworks, 
and, in 1868, he invented the telegraphic current meter. 
This instrument has since come into quite general use 
for velocity measurements, and marks a renaissance in 
hj'draulic investigation. For the two latter he was 
granted a medal at the Centennial Exposition in 1876. 



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He had never married, and was a member of the Con- 
gregational church. 

He was elected a member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers on July 7th, 1875. 

Member of the International Deep Water Ways Asso- 
ciation. 

Detroit Alumni Association of Chi Psi. 

The Prismatic Club, 1867. 

Detroit Lantern Club, Secretary and Treasurer, in 1894. 

Joined the Detroit Light Guards in the latter part of 
the '50s, and was Fifth Sergeant in 1863. 

Joined the organization of Veterans' Association of the 
Detroit Light Guards, November 16, 1880. 

Was made a Master Mason in Zion Lodge No. 1 of 
Detroit, March 13, 1861. 

Was knighted in Detroit Commandery No. 1, Knights 
Templar, December 21, 1866. 

Michigan Sovereign Consistory, S. P. R. S., December 
18, 1867. 

One of the charter members of Oriental Lodge, No. 
240, F. & A. M., January 10, 1868. 

Moslem Temple, Nobles Mystic Shrine, June 18, 1883. 

Masonic Veterans' Association of Michigan. 

Michigan Conclave No. 1, Eed Cross of Constantine. 

Active member of the Supreme Grand Chapter of the 
Grand Cross of Constantine of the United States of 
America. 

Was elevated to the degTee of Royal Ark Mariner in 
Mount Ararat Lodge No. 1, on the roll of the Ancient 
and Honorable Order of Royal Ark Mariners on the 6th 
day of March, 1901. 



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His ancestors were one of the oldest American families 
in Detroit, two of its members having- come here in 1772 
from Lancaster, Pa., duirng the British occupation — 
his great grand-uncle, John Henry, who was engaged 
in the gunsmith business and as fur trader in Detroit, 
and John Joseph Henry, his grandfather, then a boy of 
11 Tears. 

By his nephew, 

William Louis Henry, 
542 Jos. Campau Ave., 

March 21, 1909. Detroit, Mich. 






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